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Persian Royal Road a very long road

The road called Persian Royal Road ran east-west across Anatolia for more than 1,500 miles (2,400 km) between the capital city of Susa, Persia (now the village of Shush, Iran), and Smyrna (now Iz-mir, Turkey), on the Aegean coast, passing through Nineveh and Haran, with a second terminus at Ephesus. The oldest sections can be dated back to the middle of the fourth millennium BCE, but since then lots of work had been done on the road:

The road would take travelers three months to cross one end to the other. A relay system of couriers that was put in place, was able to deliver messages from one end to the other in nine days. And finally the armies of Alexander the Great used the road as the marched on it during their invasion of Persia during the fourth century BCE.

Date: 3500 BCELocation: East-West across Anatolia

Additional Information:

Royal Road – WikipediaThe Royal Road was an ancient highway reorganized and rebuilt by the Persian king Darius the Great (Darius I) of the first (Achaemenid) Persian Empire in the 5th century BCE.

Royal Road – LiviusRoyal road: according to the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus (fifth century BCE) the road that connected the capital of Lydia, Sardes, and the capitals of the Achaemenid Empire, Susa and Persepolis. From cuneiform texts, other such roads are known.

Alexander the Great – WikipediaAlexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας, Aléxandros ho Mégas Koine Greek: [a.lék.san.dros ho mé.gas]), was a king (basileus) of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.